The Bioinformatics and Advanced Molecular Biology Techniques workshop was held at the City College of CUNY campus on January 3-5, 2001. It attracted university faculty, staff and graduate students in the areas of biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, as well as faculty, staff and graduate students from other regional universities. The workshop provided an overview of bioinformatics, advanced molecular biology techniques, and the bioinformatics/computational molecular biology tools available for use over the Internet.

The workshop enabled participants to:

• become familiar with the most commonly used nucleic acid and protein databases and analysis tools on the Internet.
• participate in hands-on computer labs to practice the use of these tools.
• learn skills that will allow them to explore and exploit the more specific tools that may be useful to their own projects.

The workshop agenda is available to view to the specific topics areas presented along with the days and times of each presentation.

Evaluations indicated that the majority of the participants felt the workshop was either “excellent” or “good”. The following are comments from participants regarding the workshop:

• “Very informative, Excellent workshop!!”
• “This workshop was extremely helpful in introducing Bioinformatics applications.”
• “Your setups were helpful. I had no problem following as an engineer.”